All Kerry has going for him is that he may have killed a single badly wounded VC soldier who was out of ammo, probably with a shot to the back of the head. Nobody knows, since there were no witnesses. He may have just fired into the air. Knowing that sleazeball (and, yes, after these recent revelations, we can call him that), if he hadn't had the firepower of his boat to back him up -- roughly equivalent to the firepower of an entire infantry platoon -- chances are he wouldn't have budged. He's hardly a hero in anybody's book.